According to the United Nations, the most common form of human trafficking is trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Sex-trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, worth nearly $100 billion each year, and 96% of its victims are women and girls. It is an increasing worldwide problem where Nepal has one of the highest rates of trafficking-cases in the world. The border between Nepal and India might be one of the busiest slave trafficking routes in the world where an estimated 12000 girls are being trafficked from Nepal each year. Some of them are as young as 6-7 years of age.
Education - a way to freedom
Traffickers often target poor, uneducated girls by bringing tales of riches and opportunity to vulnerable rural communities. By supporting young survivors and girls at risk with scholarships they can shape their own future and are less likely to end up in the hands of traffickers.